Sunday, October 19, 2008

A Small Gathering

The seal people and the penguin people had a small gathering the other night. This is the lounge in our dorm. The lockers in the background are part of the recycling done in McMurdo. All garbage is separated into categories and ultimately shipped off the continent.

Left to right: Tracy, Randy, Jessica, Ian, and Cass

Terrie shows the glacier ice. Since it has trapped carbon dioxide, the ice fizzes.

Kooyman, G.L., and Ponganis, P.J. 2004. The icing of external recorders during the polar winter. In Naito, Y. Bio-Logging Science. Memoirs of the National Institute of Polar Research, Special Issue No. 58: 183-187. National Institute of Polar Research. Tokyo.